----------------------------------------------------------------------- Immunix OS Security Advisory Packages updated: xinetd Affected products: Immunix OS 7.0 Bugs fixed: immunix/1698 Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 Advisory ID: IMNX-2001-70-033-01 Author: Seth Arnold <sarnoldat_private> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Solar Designer has audited the xinetd 2.3.0 source code for many different possible vulnerabilities; the 2.3.1 release represents his patches being merged into the standard xinetd source. His audit was fairly thorough and found too many problems to report them all here. 2.3.2 fixes a heap overrun, with the fix due to Trond Eivind Glomsrød. Steve Grubb contributed many other fixes, though none appear to be directly security-related. Suffice it to say that it is only a matter of time before the problems fixed here are turned into exploits; we recommend all users running xinetd upgrade soon. Package names and locations: Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7.0 are available at: http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.i386.rpm Source package for Immunix 7.0 is available at: http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.src.rpm Immunix OS 7.0 md5sums: 654c1aa4337fbb5752e80d173b186266 RPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.i386.rpm 2e992bf61ab5439f18e3740a502dc050 SRPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.src.rpm GPG verification: Our public key is available at <http://wirex.com/security/GPG_KEY>. *** NOTE *** This key is different from the one used in advisories IMNX-2001-70-020-01 and earlier. Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/ Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and advisories: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/ Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories: http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/ NOTE: Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above are slow, please try: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/ or one of the many mirrors available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html ImmunixOS 6.2 is no longer officially supported. Contact information: To report vulnerabilities, please contact securityat_private WireX attempts to conform to the RFP vulnerability disclosure protocol <http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html>.
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